Linda Darnell

Linda Darnell

Monetta Eloyse Darnell

Birth Date

10/16/1923 (Age 41)

Birth Place

Dallas, Texas, USA

Death Date

4/10/1965

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Biography

Linda Darnell  (October 16, 1923 – April 10, 1965) was an American film actress. Darnell was a model as a child, and progressed to theater and film acting as an adolescent. At the encouragement of her mother, she made her first film in 1939, and appeared in supporting roles in big budget films for 20th Century Fox throughout the 1940s. She rose to fame with co-starring roles opposite Tyrone Power in adventure films and established a main character career after her role in Forever Amber (1947). Furthermore, she won critical acclaim for her work in Unfaithfully Yours (1948) and A Letter to Three Wives (1949). Notorious for her unstable personal life, Darnell was incapable of dealing with Hollywood, and landed in a downward spiral of alcoholis...

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Acting

Gender

Female

Total Credits

14

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Frequent Collaborators

Tyrone Power

Tyrone Power

3 films together

Otto Preminger

Otto Preminger

2 films together

Rouben Mamoulian

Rouben Mamoulian

2 films together

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

2 films together

René Clair

René Clair

2 films together

Leon Shamroy

Leon Shamroy

3 films together

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